WATCHGOD(1)

📦 version 0.8.2, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 WATCHGOD(1) — like, the General Commands Manual one 🎀

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about daphne (the page is filed under WATCHGOD(1), don't ask, it's giving rebrand energy 💅).

✨ NAME ✨

daphne — watch a directory and execute a python function on changes 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

daphne [--help]  [--verbosity LEVEL]  [function]  [path]  [--args ARGUMENTS]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So. This manual page documents, briefly, the daphne command. Short and sweet, we love a concise queen.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program does not have a manual page. (Not me writing the docs nobody else wrote 😭 that's main character energy fr fr.)

daphne is a program that watches a directory and executes a python function on changes. That's it, that's the whole vibe — change happens, function runs, slay. ✨

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). A summary of options is included below, because we would never gatekeep.

  • --help — shows the help message and exits. The classic. The icon. 👑
  • --verbosity LEVEL — sets the output verbosity level to 0, 1 (default) or 2. Pick your yap level: 1 is the default, no cap.
  • -a ARGUMENTS, --args ARGUMENTS — arguments for the argparser inside the executed function. Example: module.func path --args --inner arg -v. Yeah, it's nesting, it's a whole thing, but it works. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • function — path to the python function to execute. This is the one doing the work bestie.
  • path — filesystem path to watch. It defaults to the current directory, so if you're lazy (valid), it just watches wherever you're standing. 🫶

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

This manual page was written by fladi fladi@debian.org for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. Go read it, it's literally right there. 📖

lowkey remember: this page is short on purpose, it's a brief overview of daphne. The function does the heavy lifting, we just vibe-check the directory. 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie — WATCHGOD(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yes it really is named WATCHGOD while the command is daphne, iconic chaotic naming, we stan 🧚💖

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